first edition Hardcover
1939 · New York
by FROME, David as Leslie Ford
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, about fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with slight chipping at the foot. Murder mystery set in then newly renovated Williamsburg, Virginia. Wealthy man found dead in his library after marrying the daughter of a shrewish spinster who refuses to sell her property for the further restoration of the village. Scarce. (Inventory #: 56590)